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The release of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 (GDEM V2) was announced on October 17, 2011. This data can be downloa…
I’ve always felt that the Floor tool in Scan to BIM is a bit lacking – rather than analysing and deforming an existing Floor element, I want it to work like the Topo tool (just select a bunch of point…
I recently posted about converting Topography to massing forms using a somewhat “manual”, yet lofted and smooth, method:Convert Revit Topography into Massing Forms Harry provides some code to do a sim…
Have you ever wanted to rationalise your Topography as a Massing form, perhaps so you could use Divided Surface and panelization tools on the topo? Here is one method: Make a Site family with a vertic…
Download the add-in:Topo From Lines | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps Update it:Use this files in this ZIP to replace the files installed in C:ProgramDataAutodeskApplicationPluginsTopo From Li…
I previously posted about CADtoEarth at:https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/2012/08/quickly-add-google-earth-site-context.html Although some people have struggled to implement it or understand how it works, …
Yeah, Revit topo tools aren’t that great. Why don’t we try exporting to a sculpting tool like meshmixer, and see if we can make it work? Let’s start with a simple Revit toposurface. Export to Max by u…
Basically, if you have one site toposurface, and you cut it with pads in different phases, then an ‘outline’ around every single pad appears in the creation phase of the toposurface (they affect the t…